The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-04-22
PRESERVATION OF THE JEWS AND
DESTRUCTION Oh THEIR ENEMIES

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DESTRUCTION OF THEIR ENEMIES
1 Fear tlion not. o Jacob my servant, saith the
/ Lord, for am With tllee for will make a full
1 end ofall the nations whittier ! have driven
thee; hut ! viii not make Il fnlI end Of fhec--
Jer. XVII: y
/ The preservation of the Jews through SO
many ages, and the total destruction Of
their enemies. are wonderful events: and
are made still more wonderful by being
signified beforehand by the spirit Of propll-
eey, as We find particularly in the prophet
jeremiah: q will make full end OF the
nations whittier | have driven thee. but
will not make full end of thee
The preservation Of the Jews IS really
ore of the most signal and illustriors acts
Of Divine Providence They are dispersed
among all nations. and yet they are not
COMPOUNDED with any. The drops Of rain
which fall, nay, the great rivers which
flow into the ocean. are soon mingled
and lost in that immense body Of waters:
and the same in all human probability
would have been the fate Of the Jews they
would have been mingled and lost in the
common mass OF mankind: but on the con
trary they flow into all parts Of the world.
mix with all nations. and yet keep sep
arate from all. They still live as a dis
tirpct people, and yet they nowhere live ae-
cording to their own laws, nowhere elect
their own magistrates, now here enioy the
full exercise Of their religion. Their solemn
feasts and sacrifices are limited to one Ger
tain place, aud that hath been now for
many ages i. the hands Of strangers and
aliens, who viii not suffer them to come
thither. No people have continued un-
mixed SO long as they have done, not only
Of those who have sent forth colonies into
foreign countries, but even of those who
have abided in their own country. The
northern natives have come in swarms
into the more southern parts of Europe;
but where are they now TO be discovered
and distinguished , The Gauls went
forth in great bodies to seek their fortune
in foreign parts; but what traces of foot
steps of them are now remaining anyw here
In France who can separate the race Of
the ancient Gauls from the various other
people. who from time to time have settled
there? I'm Spain whe can distinguish ex-
actly between the FIRST possessors, the
Spaniartis. and the Gotlis. and the Maors.
who conquered and kept possession OF the
country for some ages In England who
can pretend 10 say with certainty which
families are derived from the ancient
Brit0ns. and which from the Romans, or
Saxnns. or Danes. or Normans? The
most ancient ard honorable pedisrees can
be traced up only certain period, and be-
You'd that there is nothing but conjecture
and uncertainty. obscurity and ignorance;
but the Jews can 90 up higher than any
nation. they can even dednee tiIcir pedi-
gree from the beginning Of the world
They may not know from what particular
tribe or family they are descended, but
they know certainly that they all Sprang
from the stock of Abraham And yet fhe
contempt with which they have been treat
ed, and the hardships they have undergone
in almost all countries, should, one would
think have made them des rous TO forget
or renounce their original but they pro-
fess it, they glory in it, and after so many
wars massacres, and prosecutions, they
stall subsist, they are still very numerous /;
and what but a supernatural power could
have preserved them in such a manner as
none other nation upon earth hath been
preserved.
Nor is the providence OF God less re-
markable IN the destruction of their enc
mics, than in their preservation. For from
the beginning who have been the great enc
mics and oppressors of the Jewish nation,
removed them from their own land, and
compelled them into captivity and slavery
The Egyptians afflicted them much, and
detained them in bondage several years.
The AsSyrians carried away captive the
ten tribes of Israel, and the Babylonians
/ afterwards the two remaining tribes Of Jul
dab and Benjamin The Syro- Macedonians.
especially Antiochus EpiphaneS, cruelty
perseeuted them: and the Romans utterly
dissolved the Jewish state. aud dispers ed
the people so that they have never been
able TO recover their city and country again
4 But where are now these great and famous
monarchies. which in their turn subdaed
and oppressed the people of God? Are
| they not vanished as dream. and not only
\ their power, but their very names lost in
/ the earths The Egyptians. Assyrians.
/ and Babylonians were oyerthrown, and en-
tirely subjngsted by the PeFsians; and the
/ Persians Git is remarkable were the restor-
4 ers Of the Jews. as well as the destroyers
4 of their enemies. The Syro- Macedonians
Were swallowed up by the Romans; and
/ the Roman Empire great and powerful as
it was. was broken into pieces by the in
4 cursions Of the northern nations; while
! the Jews are subsisting as distinct pee
ple at this day And what a wonder Of
providence is it, that the vanquished should
50 many ages survive the victor, and the
4 former be spread all over the world, while
4 TIE latter are no more fAnd have we not
4 herein demonstration Of The Divine Ia.
/ SEPARATION Of the prophets Iissdop Me
foR, III Dissertations.